Book of the Week: afternoon stillness

Colin Blundell has served haiku in a variety of ways over the past three decades, but best through his own poetry. He is a musician, and his ear and timing can be found even in this, one of his earliest volumes (Hub Editions, 1996)).

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Haiku featured in the Book of the Week Archive are selected by Jim Kacian, following a concept first explored by Tom Clausen, and are used with permission.

& that Saturday
after the balloons went up—
trouserless people

trails without warning
begin to descend into
the world of the dead


dancing round a star
to perish is worth quitting
dusty threads of cloth

turning the corner—
the northern gale brings the smell
of ice & horses


some small grave houses
in the sunlit Père Lachaise
disintegrating

under the mountain
the ancient white village sinks
below the sun-line